Investigators have determined that the fire that killed more than 150 birds and a dog on Friday at a nature preserve was accidental. The fire was electrical in nature, and investigators believe it might have started near the roof of one of the buildings at the Gilcrease Nature Preserve, Clark County Fire Department spokesman Scott Allison said.
CHICAGO — A spokesman for the once mighty community activist group ACORN says the group is disbanding.
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. stopped censoring the Internet for China by shifting its search engine off the mainland Monday but said it will maintain other operations in the country. The maneuver attempts to balance Google’s disdain for China’s Internet rules with its desire to profit from an explosively growing market.
Sithe Global announced Monday that it will build an electricity-generating station fueled by solar power and natural gas near Mesquite.
Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport fell 6.2 percent in February as the full impact of cutbacks by US Airways were felt.
LOS ANGELES — Alice remains the queen of the box office. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” took in $34.5 million to remain the No. 1 movie for a third-straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
LOS ANGELES — Buzz Aldrin has done the moonwalk, but the cha-cha isn’t coming quite so easy. The astronaut has been practicing the fast-paced Latin dance for three weeks in preparation for his debut on “Dancing With the Stars.” “It’s not so easy when things are rapidly moving,” Aldrin, 80, said on his way to a rehearsal Friday with professional partner Ashly Costa.